West Virginia
2-0Big 12 · Rich Rodriguez, year 2 (6-8) · Milan Puskar Stadium · 60,000 · 50,603 avg in 2026
LastW 52–7 vs UT Martin · Sat Sep 12 · Michael Hawkins Jr. 155 pass yds, 2 TD, 96 rush yds
Nextvs Virginia · Sat Sep 19 · 7:30 pm ET · Bank of America Stadium · Virginia by 10 · series 9-12-1, lost the last 3 · Game preview
Updated Tue Sep 15 · through week 2
All 78 stats
FBS rankings · 2026 season · all stats vs 136 FBS programs
| Player | # | G | Cmp/Att | Pct | Yds | Y/A | TD | INT | Rate | ZPR | QBR | Adj ANY/A | Sack% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| +0.66 EPA/play | 3 | 2 | 16 / 21 | 76.2 | 287 | 13.7 | 3 #60 FBS | 0 | 238.1 | — | 99.8 | — | — | |
Yards by week → | ||||||||||||||
| Player | # | G | Car | Yds | Avg | TD | Long | Stuff% | 10+% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balanced Back · -0.11 EPA/play | 4 | 2 | 40 | 194 #26 FBS | 4.8 | 3 #11 FBS | 72 | — | — | |
Yards by week → Balanced BackPlays within the scheme — consistent production without a dominant dimension. National watch / fringe All-American — on the edge of a 1st-team nod. This week's matchup — RB Cook does a little of everything without one standout trait. Hawkins is the one who just keeps getting the ball, series after series. Season receipt Yards / carry4.0 bottom 22th percentile · FBS RBs, min. 40 carries Receiving share4.8% bottom 19th percentile · FBS RBs, min. 40 carries Plays like View Cam Cook's full player page | ||||||||||
| Player | # | G | Rec | Yds | Avg | TD | Long | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| +2.02 EPA/play | 2 | 2 | 5 | 148 #74 FBS | 29.6 | 1 | 59 | |
Yards by week → | ||||||||
| Player | # | G | Tot | Solo | TFL | Sack | Hur |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | |
| 52 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 93 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| 43 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 3 #30 FBS | 1 | 0 |
| Player | # | G | Tot | Solo | Ast | TFL | Sack | PD | INT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 2 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 1.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| 33 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 #22 FBS | |
| 15 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 13 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Player | # | G | Tot | PD | INT | TFL | Sack |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 7 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| — | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 3 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Player | # | G | FG M/A | FG% | XP M/A | Pts | Long |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 42 | 2 | 2/2 | 100 | 10/10 | 16 | 38 |
| Player | # | G | No | Yds | Avg | Long | In20 | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 83 | 2 | 8 | 333 | 41.6 | 74 | 2 | 1 |
Net average is unavailable — CFBD's punting feed carries gross yards only, with no return-yardage or touchback deduction.
2026 stat leaders · West Virginia
through 2 games
2026 stat leaders · West VirginiaIsaiah Patterson leads West Virginia with 14 tackles through 2 games.
How They Play · 2025West Virginia fields a struggling run-heavy offense behind a solid, gives up the big play defense.
Percentile vs all FBS, based on this season's per-game production. Bar = where this team ranks — right is better.
West Virginia reads strongest in rushing epa allowed (top 15%) and success rate allowed (top 37%); the crux lives in explosive plays allowed, where West Virginia sits at the 8th percentile.
offense · strengths lead
defense · higher bar = harder to play against
hidden math · special situations
Home-field advantage · West Virginia · 2018–present · FBS opponents
West Virginia is worth +4.5 points more at home than on the road.
Middle of FBS, 61st percentile of 133 programs
57% at home, 37% away against FBS opponents since 2018 (24–18 home, 16–27 away). Interval ±3.8.
Our model gives every stadium the same flat 2.3-point home edge — per-team modelling was tested and did not survive scrutiny (why) — and the books use about 3. Against the closing line, West Virginia has beaten the number by +0.9 more at home than away over 72 games — inside the ±7.2 that many games can resolve. Results here cannot tell the flat number apart from the building, and that is the honest reading of nearly every FBS stadium.
Milan Puskar Stadium seats 60,000 and has averaged 86% full (51,419, 27 games reported). Visitors face the 3rd-longest trip of 135 FBS venues: a median 887 miles since 2018. The map isn't translating, though — the split above still reads middle of fbs. For the home side it is a home crowd more than a home town: only 7% of the 2026 roster (8 of 110 located players) grew up inside 100 miles of the stadium.
Edge = half the gap between average home margin and average road margin, FBS opponents only, non-neutral games since 2018; the interval is 95%. Market line: closing spread, seasons with lines on file. Trip length is straight-line miles from the visiting team's campus to the venue, measured across all 50 home games since 2018.
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Scheme claims
Fourth-quarter reliability, corrected
West Virginia's 4th-quarter offense, before and after garbage time
Raw Q4 EPA/play ranks 9th percentile in FBS. Strip out snaps taken with a blowout margin and it climbs to the 11th — the correction is the finding, not a footnote.
Tendency drift
Season by season
How West Virginia’s current staff calls plays, year over year
Ratings
Comparable teams
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Matched on how the programs are built — tier, prestige band, kind of fanbase, conference, voice and roster size — not on this season's stats. A calibration, not a prediction.
Conditions
61°F average kickoff temp; 16% of games had measurable precipitation; 6 mph average wind.
Based on 76 home games with weather data.